The Albemarle County Planning Commission met on Tuesday,
June 6, 2006 and held a meeting and a public hearing at 6:00 p.m., at the County
Office Building, Room 241, Second Floor, 401 McIntire Road, Charlottesville,
Virginia. Members attending were Eric Strucko, Bill Edgerton, Jo Higgins, Jon
Cannon, Marcia Joseph, Chairman and Calvin Morris, Vice-Chairman. Absent was
Pete Craddock. Julia Monteith, Senior Land Use Planner for the University of
Virginia, representative for David J. Neuman, FAIA, Architect for University of
Virginia, was absent.

·Ms. Wiegand summarized the staff
report. This zoning map amendment is to extend the sunset date in the proffer.
As it states in the staff report it is set to expire in 2006 later this year.
The applicant desires to extend it for ten more years to 2016. This is
basically a very simple straight forward request for a change in date. There
has been no site plan submitted with it. Staff received an email this morning
from a neighbor the Ergenbrights. They do not oppose the extension of the sunset
date and are comfortable with that. But, they raised three concerns or three
issues:

1.Screening – They expressed
concerns about the Entrance Corridor. They asked for some more screening on the
property. There is some screening there now. On a site visit she checked all
of that out. There appeared to be enough screening that it meets the current
requirements. They also asked for screening on 240 on the other side of the
street to screen the retention basin. It is shown as the little blue dot on the
plan. But, that is really not related to what is before the Commission tonight.

2.Entrances on to Route 240 – There
are three entrances on to Route 240. On the site visit she found that there was
not an extensive amount of traffic. She did not have any troubling pulling in
and out of the site in a car. In the email the Ergenbrights did mention that
some trucks back into the site to the loading dock, which would be the third
entrance that is on the extreme right of the property as shown on the plan.
VDOT has not recommended or required any changes. They really don’t have any
mechanisms with this to do that because there is no site plan being part of the
plan.

3.Noise Issue – They expressed a
concern about the noise. She spoke with the applicant and he indicated that
there is very little noise generated by either the current use or the tenant,
Paul’s Lawnmower Service. This use has been here since the mid 1960’s. The
area is zoned Light Industrial, which is the area where they envision having
land uses that might have some amount of noise involved. She did not feel that
was an issue that the Commission needed to be worried about because she was not
sure there was noise now. But, staff would be happy to be directed by the
Commission on that.

Ms. Joseph pointed out that there is a noise
ordinance which would be enforced if there were any problems here.

Ms. Wiegand said that she had received no
complaints from the public about this. This was the only phone call or email
that came in.

Ms. Joseph asked if anyone had any questions
for Ms. Wiegand. There being none, she opened the public hearing and asked if
the applicant would like to speak on this.

Gary Fern, Director of the Albemarle County
Service Authority, introduced himself as Bill Brent’s replacement. For the last
25 years he has been in consulting engineering and is a professional engineer
and has sat through numerous Planning Commission meetings.

Mr. Morris asked what he thought about the
three entrances. He asked if all three entrances were needed.

Mr. Fern said that he had been to the site
twice, which was not in regards to this application. In looking at it he would
note that one of the entrances was solely dedicated to the Rivanna Water and
Sewer Authority in order to get their trucks back to the loading dock for
chemical and other equipment. So that entrance is necessary. The middle
entrance is for the lawnmower service. The far entrance is used very
sporadically by our own trucks in order to get to equipment that they might
store from time to time in that third area. What they don’t want to do is to be
driving through the space that Paul’s Lawnmower is renting. So they sometimes
take that third route. But, he would certainly look at that a little closer.

Mr. Edgerton noted that the Commission is
always asking people to limit the number of entrances.

Ms. Higgins noted that the activity when there
is peak traffic she has never seen any tractor trailers. There is a new fence
up and it is gated. So it is not like people are driving in and out of that one
without somebody going in and opening that gate. So that entrance to the far
right is not used very often. There is good site distance. There is not a lot
of activity on the far entrance. It is the center entrance that is used most
and she has never seen anyone sitting and waiting to pull out. She drives
through that area to Crozet possibly two times a day.

There being no further questions, Ms. Joseph
invited public comment. There being none, she closed the public hearing to
bring the matter before the Commission.

Motion:
Mr. Morris moved, Mr. Cannon seconded, to recommend approval of ZMA-2006-04,
Albemarle County Service Authority – Crozet property to extend the sunset date
from 2006 to 2016, for use of a contractor’s equipment storage yard and
warehouse facilities at the site.

The motion passed by a vote of 6:0.
(Commissioner Craddock was absent.)

Ms. Joseph stated that ZMA-2006-04, Albemarle
County Service Authority – Crozet would go before the Board of Supervisors on
July 5, 2006 with a recommendation for approval.